homebridge-accessory-slack

A slack accessory plugin for Homebridge.

Installation

Run these commands:

% sudo npm install -g homebridge
% sudo npm install -g homebridge-accessory-slack

On Linux, you might see this output for the second command:

npm ERR! pcap@2.0.0 install: node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!

If so, please try

% apt-get install libpcap-dev

and try

% sudo npm install -g homebridge-accessory-slack

again!

NB: If you install homebridge like this:

sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge

Then all subsequent installations must be like this:

sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge-accessory-slack

Configuration

Edit ~/.homebridge/config.json, inside "accessories": [ ... ] add:

{ "accessory"    : "slack"
, "name"         : "Slack Notifications"
, "webhook"      : "https://hooks.slack.com/services/.../.../..."
, "codes"        : [ "Motion detected", "Door Opened" ]
}

To create an incoming webhook for slack, go to

    https://...slack.com/apps/A0F7XDUAZ-incoming-webhooks

and click on "Add Configuration", this will provide a webhook URL such as the one in the example.

The channel and username properties are optional.

The codes array must contain at least one text string: when you set Notification Code to an integer value, the string residing at that offset in codes is sent as a notification. Using the example above, setting Notification Code to 0 results in "Motion detected" being sent.

For example, here is a scene called 'Notification Code 0', which does just that:

This can be combined with a rule called "Office Door opened", that waits for a sensor contact to open at a certain time and then triggers that scene: